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Belmonster" Disaster Teaches California a Lesson
Capital Ideas
By: K. Lloyd Billingsley
5.28.2003
Last week the Belmont Learning Center in Los Angeles, the most expensive high school in history with $175 million already spent, grew $111 million more expensive. While a disaster for students, the now $286 million "Belmonster," as some call it, provides clear lessons about what is wrong with California's government education system.
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Is the Penguin Contaminated?
ePolicy
5.26.2003
If there's one thing the open-source community is known for, it's chutzpah. In a recent online petition, more than 1500 Linux users told the SCO Group, which owns intellectual property rights to key components of the Unix operating system, to sue them.
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Let Them Read Fakes
Capital Ideas
By: K. Lloyd Billingsley
5.21.2003
The New York Times has been making headlines with the revelation that its star reporter, Jayson Blair, filed stories from places he had not been, freighted with quotes he made up, and filled with information either bogus or stolen from other writers. His work is in the tradition of Janet Cooke of the Washington Post, whose celebrated tale of a youthful junkie proved to be fiction, and fabulist Stephen Glass of The New Republic, now attempting to cash in on his fraud in a new book.
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High School Exit Exam Has Improved Learning
Capital Ideas
By: Lance T. Izumi, J.D.
5.14.2003
In a recent speech, Wayne Johnson, president of the California Teachers Association (CTA), blared, "We have to fight to end these absurd tests that are biased, racist, and unfairly define kids and teachers as failures" The CTA is sponsoring legislation that would effectively eliminate the state's high-school exit exam. A new study, however, shows that the exit exam has improved the quality of instruction.
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Kerry On
Capital Ideas
By: Steven F. Hayward, Ph.D
5.8.2003
Massachusetts Senator and presidential candidate John Forbes Kerry attracted a lot of heat a few weeks ago for saying that the United States needed "regime change" as much as Iraq. Did Kerry really mean that the U.S. Constitution and way of life were defective and required wholesale change, as the term "regime change" is meant when used properly by political scientists? Of course not; he was only trying to be humorous, as he explained later to knee-slapping reporters.
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